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De Geerdalen, Svalbard, Norway

FormationDe Geerdalen
Member(s)Wilhelmøya
Age:222 - 216 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
IntervalCarnian
Lithologysiliciclastic
Number of Collections3
Number of Occurrences13

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Marhøgda-KnertenSpitsbergen, Svalbard, NorwayDe Geerdalen - Wilhelmøya
Edgeoya IslandSvalbard, NorwayDe Geerdalen
Sample 146Hopen, Svalbard, NorwayDe Geerdalen

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
De Geerdalen - Wilhelmøya209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic
shale/sandstone6
Kapp Starostin272 - 254 Ma
Permian
limestone, "siliciclastic", sandstone, chert117

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Pistosauridae
family
5Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Pistosauridae237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Curionia sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Venerida : Neoleptonidae : Curionia208.5 - 201.3 Ma
Mesozoic
Cardinia sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Carditida : Cardiniidae : Cardinia208.5 - 201.3 Ma
Mesozoic
Austrotindaria canalensis
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Neilonellidae : Austrotindaria : Austrotindaria canalensis208.5 - 201.3 Ma
Mesozoic
Nuculana (Nuculana) sp.
subgenus
6.3Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Nuculanidae : Nuculana : Nuculana (Nuculana)208.5 - 201.3 Ma
Mesozoic
Halobia sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Halobiidae : Halobia221.5 - 215.56 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Halobia aotii
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Halobiidae : Halobia : Halobia aotii221.5 - 215.56 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Halobia fallax
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Halobiidae : Halobia : Halobia fallax221.5 - 215.56 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Halobia maximiliani
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Halobiidae : Halobia : Halobia maximiliani221.5 - 215.56 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Halobia obruchevi
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Halobiidae : Halobia : Halobia obruchevi221.5 - 215.56 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Halobia zitteli
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Halobiidae : Halobia : Halobia zitteli208.5 - 201.3 Ma
Mesozoic
Eumorphotis sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Pectinida : Etheripectinidae : Eumorphotis208.5 - 201.3 Ma
Mesozoic
Pterosirenites nelgehensis
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Trachyceratidae : Pterosirenites : Pterosirenites nelgehensis221.5 - 215.56 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Pterosirenites obrucevi
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Trachyceratidae : Pterosirenites : Pterosirenites obrucevi221.5 - 215.56 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

References

Korchinskaya M. V. (1980) Rannenoriiskaya fauna arkhipelaga Sval'bard, Geologiya Osadochnogo Chekhla Arkhipelaga Sval'bard, 30-43
Wierzbowski A., Kulicki C., et al (1981) Fauna and stratigraphy of the uppermost Triassic and the Toarcian and Aalenian deposits in the Sassenfjorden, Spitsbergen, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 26, 195-237
Kear B. P., Maxwell E. E. (2013) Wiman's forgotten plesiosaurs: the earliest recorded sauropterygian fossils from the High Arctic, GFF (Geologiska Foreningen) doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2012.753949
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